Stephen A. Lawrence <sa...@pobox.com> wrote: Something we don't often consider: > > *From an engineering perspective, if you need careful calorimetry to > determine whether your generator works, then it really doesn't matter > whether it works. Its output is so small as to be irrelevant.* > > A device producing a megawatt of heat energy should not require careful > calorimetry to determine whether it works. >
True, unless input is 990 kW. Which would be ridiculous. It is actually harder to measure 1 MW than, say, 1 kW, or even 100 W. Measuring industrial quantities of heat is dangerous; it requires expensive equipment; and you cannot be as accurate. Still, despite inaccuracy, you can be sure. > The demo was not conclusive. For a 1 MW heat generator, that's the same > as saying it flat-out doesn't work. > I agree. > Producing an inconclusive demo of such a device, *if it worked*, would > require an impossible level of incompetence. > Yup. Incompetence, malevolence or insanity. - Jed
